![]() ![]() As a concept, the new Jim Crow has become shorthand for many anticarceral activists to describe the deep racial dimensions of criminalization and incarceration in the American criminal legal system. ![]() Over the past decade, The New Jim Crow has forced policymakers, scholars, and the public to confront the problem of mass incarceration in important new ways. Alexander is commonly credited for popularizing the premise that over the past half-century in America, mass incarceration has functioned as “a new racial caste system,” fueled by a calculated and seemingly colorblind system of disenfranchisement, destruction, and death ( Alexander 2010, p. Although Alexander did not invent the concepts of mass imprisonment or the prison-industrial complex, her book reinforced the groundbreaking work of scholars such as David Garland (2002), Angela Davis (2003), Bruce Western (2006), Jonathan Simon (2006), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2007), and Loïc Wacquant (2009). Michelle Alexander's bestselling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Era of Colorblindness, published in 2010, is the most widely read text on the American criminal justice system ever published. ![]()
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